I then heard a big sound outside, we both did, one that made us shiver. It frightened94Please respect copyright.PENANAZgWdyBA62G
me deeply and as much as I wished it to be just the one scare, it was not to be.94Please respect copyright.PENANAZvJNJ0Au4g
“It has begun.” He confessed rather calmly as if he was already expecting it.94Please respect copyright.PENANA0bmxNFEOwa
Many more terrible sounds soon followed, screams and other noises of terror just94Please respect copyright.PENANAGoApBgI4yW
outside that room, and as my eyes began rummaging in a most panicky manner, he94Please respect copyright.PENANAiiuqR6y7WJ
placed his hands on my cheeks and stared right at me: “It’s alright.” He reassured me94Please respect copyright.PENANA6N2nPC0ajV
“This is intended, you understand? It is according to the plan.” He was staring at me94Please respect copyright.PENANAzcT0j25rza
with deep concern, but there was no lie in his words.94Please respect copyright.PENANApCGCgE0Yvd
“What is happening?” I reluctantly asked, “What is this place?” I felt like I was94Please respect copyright.PENANAyeikyqSWV8
finally able to understand myself for the most part, or at least most of my spoken94Please respect copyright.PENANA1F6rnnxlxA
words were now sounding just like my thoughts before I voiced them. “Please?”94Please respect copyright.PENANAOA0izqgzXY
I insisted ...94Please respect copyright.PENANAxnG1bsMzrR
“We don’t have much time for this,” Those hoarse words pushed through between94Please respect copyright.PENANAL3F3LBdKR1
nervous breaths, and it seemed I could now understand them without too much94Please respect copyright.PENANA4GzCui4wHy
impediment “but you have just been awakened ... or born, if you will.”94Please respect copyright.PENANApe6KkEPbf0
“I don’t understand,” I begged for more as he turned his back to me to begin those94Please respect copyright.PENANAbYsIC5YwHi
rushed preparations, and when I was about to insist, he spoke to me some more.94Please respect copyright.PENANAsCkJIoD0MF
“You were born into this world - born, the word born, you already know the94Please respect copyright.PENANAHoy6wgOoKa
meaning?”94Please respect copyright.PENANAkN7CVRJv8a
“Yes ...”94Please respect copyright.PENANAtIPF32Y0ys
“Yes, of course, you do.” He responded with a smile before continuing, “Either way,94Please respect copyright.PENANAShBCQpglPT
you were born into it or perhaps brought here from another; not even I know for sure94Please respect copyright.PENANArJearw1xtN
which one applies more correctly. Not even after so many... Anyway, I know you are to94Please respect copyright.PENANAVTG0YluDXv
be charged with bearing most of this world’s responsibility.”94Please respect copyright.PENANA9YpkOlxXFU
“Charged?” I asked.94Please respect copyright.PENANAA4S8yHcqHh
“Yes charged, and by none other than yourself. But first, we need to get you out of94Please respect copyright.PENANAZNQY0hwrAb
here. We must deliver you somewhere safe.” He stopped to look straight at me “I know94Please respect copyright.PENANAowN2P6zM75
you have so many questions, but it is imperative that you save them for later.”94Please respect copyright.PENANAnoXPoWfnVc
“You must put your trust in me, you understand? You must trust me and be patient.94Please respect copyright.PENANAwqDnksoydC
Time itself will tell you all that you might want to know right now and then some. Just94Please respect copyright.PENANApxk2QCENSa
wait.” He turned again to resume those rushed preparations; “I take it that it will not94Please respect copyright.PENANA4r4kXAuN1p
be long before I am the one turning to you for some answers. For now, just be patient94Please respect copyright.PENANA6ubztuIpLr
and do what I ask of you.”94Please respect copyright.PENANAxfOQ8lz2F7
“What am I? How can I have learned this much already, and so fast?” I stopped for94Please respect copyright.PENANAx7sTz6t6Ny
a moment, and then looked him in the eye: “And how can I know that is not normal?”94Please respect copyright.PENANAkV3W1hedx7
“Not a what, but a who.” He replied while turning away from me but still, likely94Please respect copyright.PENANAzNbmb5VTvV
against his wishes, I felt that those words were brought forth in a somewhat vague and94Please respect copyright.PENANAMWKXu7OIG9
unassertive manner.94Please respect copyright.PENANAQEFmGfw3ug
“Who then...” I could not help but be distracted by all that was raging on just outside94Please respect copyright.PENANA2xg8cZTU0k
that room; the several noises rampaging all around, those constant screams escorted94Please respect copyright.PENANAjDlVheli1w
now by other gruesome sounds of violence. I tightly shut my eyes for a moment, in94Please respect copyright.PENANAk99tue7DY7
the hopes that somehow it would all go away, and then looked at him again. I found94Please respect copyright.PENANAlmrJNgHiQJ
comfort in that even if he himself seemed desperate to finish gathering all sorts of94Please respect copyright.PENANApgRUvywm7E
things from those silvered tables, he too seemed afraid. “Who then?” I was so hoping94Please respect copyright.PENANAoqZJb4SINI
he would cave, if just for a moment, but no such luck.94Please respect copyright.PENANAgx0A0GdR7e
So, I just sat there, completely free from any physical bonds but with my feelings94Please respect copyright.PENANAh73ghbnGWM
still tying me to that bed. I remained still, watching him pack those last things with94Please respect copyright.PENANAfQLU3KcDQF
great haste: all sorts of papers and the tools to inscribe on them, some food, and a few94Please respect copyright.PENANA81B1Ai2XkY
other utensils too that I could not yet recognize.94Please respect copyright.PENANANoovNBOGJc
I felt so inclined to ask him again, but before I managed to assemble the required94Please respect copyright.PENANAwFw7JMmj4E
words, I got hit in the head, something fierce!94Please respect copyright.PENANANd6vJ3sA4t
A presentiment, a quick vision of a clap of thunder cutting through heavy rain and,94Please respect copyright.PENANAp3FGnS6YFF
amidst it all, some sort of airship struggling through it. Could that have been just a94Please respect copyright.PENANAWBcy4cKtTL
random trick of my imagination or the thunderclap of catastrophe? What was that?94Please respect copyright.PENANAEUhr0wtp7O
It felt so...94Please respect copyright.PENANACUzDBNNrie
A premonition perhaps, or a distorted perception of my unknown present?94Please respect copyright.PENANA9fl0ZtGgmq
Surprised I looked at him only for my doubts to be met with a wry grin.